[pmmail-list] OT Gender (was Re: Pendatic but Wrong!)

[Frank Winkler - Sun Germany - Sun Services]

 >How did that happen!?  The word for the biological (i.e. sometimes 
 >pathenogenic) "wetware" virus came first; so I would have expected 
 >the "software" virus (which is named after it's wetware 
 >counterpart) to follow it's gender too!  Or is this just a 
 >convention to distingiush between the different usages?

I supposse the latter. Basically this is to distinguish between two 
homonymic words with different meanings - even the result of the two is 
quite similar for creatures and computers. In the German language, there 
are some more "couples" with different genders, whereas in English, we have 
different words which sound the same but which can't even be distinguished 
by the gender ;) ...

Regards

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